And then there was Myleene Klass, pop star turned TV presenter, supposedly wiping the floor with Ed Miliband on ITV's The Agenda over Labour's plans to introduce a mansion tax. Miliband often looks somewhat dumbstruck, but he could be forgiven for being flummoxed in this instance, given he was being lectured by someone claiming to speak on behalf of ordinary "grannies". Polly Toynbee's commentary in the Guardiannails it: "How quickly wealth loses touch, bestowing the sense of indignant
entitlement Klass displayed as she claimed you could only buy 'a garage'
for £2m in London. Polite Miliband may have been stumped about where to
begin a riposte, but on this issue most people see the obscene
spectacle of London property wealth – and rightly think the rich should
pay a bit more."